If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. ~Brett Eldredge
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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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